Report highlights barriers to children with disabilities taking part in sport
One in two parents in Britain with a child with disabilities aged 4 to 18…
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UK charity Family Fund to receive £82 million over next three years
The Department for Education (DfE) has confirmed that it will maintain its £27.3 million annual…
Step by step
An international project using brain-controlled robotics to help paraplegic patients walk has published a new…
MRI scans may reveal links between cerebellum and dyspraxia
A research team at The University of Nottingham is using MRI scanning to learn more…
My HemiCheck
HemiHelp, the UK’s national charity for hemiplegia, has developed a simple tool to help those…
UK children urged to ‘Bring your Bear’ to school to aid medical research
A UK charity is urging its youngest supporters to help raise funds for medical research…
Early childhood depression impacts brain development
Early childhood depression is associated with marked alterations in cortical gray matter in late school…
Slipping through the net
A new poll has highlighted the gender gap in UK dyspraxia/DCD diagnoses, suggesting girls and…
Just one won’t hurt…
Prenatal exposure to alcohol is regarded by many experts as the leading preventable cause of…
Training the physical to improve the cognitive
Dr Elizabeth McClelland takes issue with the sit-down-and-learn camp and argues that ‘embodied cognition’ offers a…